Rackham Fig. 18: Grazing suppression and fire on Myrtos

Evergreen-oak (Quercus rotundifolia) savanna from
which foresters excluded goats and sheep for a few years, allowing pine
(Pinus halepensis) to invade and flammable native vegetation,
such as the spineless gorse Adenocarpus decorticans, to accumulate.
A conflagration resulted. Alpujarra, south Spain, November 1994